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we left

Weymouth this morning it was a bit of a

manic get into the boat we had a bit of

late night last night back at home

fantastic food that Chuck cooked for us

all few wines so it was a bit late get

into the boat and we had about three

minutes to get to the bridge live so we

you know quickly to cut on ties and got

to the back of the queue and managed to

get through the bridge lived at 10 so

today I thought we'd to share with you

today basically a day on the boat

so what we're doing is we've recently

had a new anchor so we bought a mantas

supreme anchor and we want to try it out

so we're going to go and find a cove and

we're gonna go an anchor off and we're

gonna go bait well basically try our

anchor out and also Chuck's bought a new

paddle board so we're gonna have a bit

of a play with that as well so yeah

we're basically going to share with you

a day in the life of I was on sea cactus

you might wonder why I'm dressed like

this this is because the weather keeps

changing so one minute is sunny next

it's cloudy there's quite a few clouds

around us and wind wise it's variable

it's keeps putting us on a beam reach

but then it keeps going around on the

nose so I'm going to keep trimming the

sails every so often but we are saying

we are doing about three knots across

the ground

so that's alright for us I suppose I

mean we've only got eight knots of wind

so yeah cut it with a little bit and see

what we're up to

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it's a bot with a fish what kind of bird

cormorant what did have fish I'm a

little bit on over its a cormorant and

it's just dived into the deep blue sea

and caught itself a fish or as David

Aston we would say that is a cool brute

this is just caught a fish

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as you can hear the engines on so which

we cheated

we still got the sails up so we almost

salient and but we we've dropped down to

literally like one not going across the

ground so and that was for to be honest

that was a tight push this the wind's

dropped to like four knots

so there's barely any knots that barely

any wind and I think that's pretty much

because this headland and these cliffs

across the air it's quite spectacular

they're all like talking cliff so they

look quite quite unique but I think as

we're coming around the headland the

winds kind of died off because it's come

in from the land anyway

about an hour away early oh yeah and I

just want to send three hours drift in

there so we all notice a little be there

soon

Wow we've had a bit of a change of plan

so those who you've been following our

channel will know that when we put the

boat back in we had some overheating

issues it was running on the engine for

about an hour and we will slightly

heeled over anyway because we give the

sails up as well but engine overeating

law came on again just as I was outside

the code that we wanted to anchor in so

that meant we couldn't motor in there

and it's a very tight code so sail in

there and anchoring is probably not the

best thing to do so now we're sailing

back because I can't really work out why

the engines overheating

it's got flow through it there's water

coming out of the exhaust it's got

caught and all that kind of stuff we

checked all this after last time don't

know the minute so the plan is the plan

is to sail back with a little bit of

wind we've got takes a bit longer than

we would like that

and then when we get right outside the

Moreno then we'll stick the engine on

just just to get this tied up alongside

somewhere because the engine should

hopefully be a bit cooler by then so

yeah that's that's the fun of their

engines suppose it's one of those things

they sail it but we'll learn from it I'm

just trying to think about what what

could be the problem and I can't really

don't really think what it is to be

honest

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so it got back to Weymouth fine we put

the engine on just outside and smoke to

the they remained away other way in

obviously the engine behaved that

himself then but I think he's long

enough to protest it properly anyway and

then when we got back to Maude up I took

the water pump impeller out to make sure

that was all cleaned tire that looked

fine no blades missing or anything like

that I had a look at the exchanger and

looks fine no put it in there or

anything like that and I also had to

look at the wall raw raw water strainer

the filter in there had a bit of mud in

it and this kind of stuff but it didn't

really look as if it was gonna be

anything restricting the flow too much

but I clean that out anyway and then

finally I'll mess around with the

seacock as well as their handles not

particularly great on that one but I

don't know if I've been left slightly

cracked close I don't know or if I don't

know if I'm just thinking that I'm ahead

but yes we probably go out tomorrow

hopefully and then just try the engine a

bit more and hopefully fix that but so

when we got back we decided to spend a

bit of time in Weymouth I'm gonna wander

around because it was the the seafood

festival something on that so you know I

don't wonder

there is dead

it's been a bit of a long day so we're

gonna go off to bed and we'll see you in

the morning where we stopped all day

bring it

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good morning we're just off sailing

again today so as you know from

yesterday we had a few issues with

overheating engines so we affect all

around with a few things yesterday and

we came out the marina this morning

don't attempt fate but everything seemed

in order and then just getting warm and

obviously it's cooling down using the

cooling system but there is a bit

Wednesday so we are we have switched it

off and we are sailing so I'm kind of

wondering in the back of my head whether

yesterday was I know we've had

overheating in the past but because I

couldn't really find anything I'm just

wondering if for some reason we had a

plastic bag around the sail drive

because basically how the how the

cooling system works is we've got these

little holes in the sail drive and

that's where the water gets pumped up

into the boat and the sail drive is a

little leg that hangs down from the

bottom of the hull and that's where the

propellers attach to and if you're

sailing through the water or anything

like that and you get a plastic bag it

can wrap itself around the sail drive

and effectively stop the water flow

going through your engine so I'm just

wondering if something like that happens

and then obviously by time you know we

saw everything

it would have floated off or whatever

because there's no suction there anymore

when we switch the engine off so that's

just something to think about that might

and but yeah we were just sailing today

and there's about nine knots of wind

we're doing four across the ground to go

bed tired against us and obviously today

is actually a lot nicer so I wish I'd

saved my best for today but how well it

was actually forecast worse today and

raining but obviously not

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okay so swimmer you might be one do you

know why

we're just saying up and down the coast

a little bit these kind of things that's

basically cost where we're planning a

bit of a river trip this summer for a

roughly around three weeks not quite

decided to where we're gonna go because

that's all dependent on weather and you

know what's gonna be happen at a time

when we get a forecast until really two

weeks before we go we get a rough idea

what we're doing the thoughts that the

minute are we gonna go to the Channel

Islands or we're gonna basically coast

hop along the coast and go towards the

Isles of Scilly

but that all depends on weather and wind

and where the winds gonna come from if

the wind is coming from the Isles of

Scilly then obviously you know we don't

want to spend we can have tacking all

the way up there and equally you know if

it's coming from the south then we don't

really want to go into the channel

islands so that's all really all going

to depend on the weather so what we're

doing is basically we're testing the

sails make sure the engines all right

like you saw everything is basically

serviceable and in good order

before we go on such a trip so that's

basically the purpose of making sure

that everything works as it should so I

want to make sure we anchor out right

make sure the anchors fine and all these

kind of things but that's basically why

we're doing I suggest and could have

just tanked it up outside Weymouth Bay

she thought you know we want to test

anchor anyway seems to set alright and

yeah and for once in the UK actually we

can actually see the bottom so if we

just just follow us and have a quick

look at the bottom here this is this is

a first for us we're actually you can

actually see the seabed and that is it's

not something you can only see in the UK

so

now we're just gonna go for a swim

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principally very intently without

pastrami job some pastrami pits

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